Publishing Newsadolescence / bestseller lists / Comics / data and analytics / Macmillan / Mark Millar / Netflix / periods / Pronoun / Self-publishing / sex ed2 Comments
Macmillan’s Pronoun Self-Publishing Platform Signs Off – If you’ve never heard of Pronoun, you may know the company by its former name, Vook. Pronoun’s closure announcement is somewhat vague (“Macmillan is unable to continue Pronoun’s operation in its current form”) and they seem to be retaining the data and analytics ... more >
Publishing Newschildren's literature / diversity / Free Speech / future of books / Kumail Nanjiani / publishing / romantic comedies / Roxane Gay / sex ed / Simon & Schuster6 Comments
Simon & Schuster cancels Milo Yiannopoulos’ book – I am left wondering if Simon & Schuster was looking for a reason to drop Dangerous, despite their insistence that they were ‘doing the right thing’ and defending free speech. That claim was just about as convincing as Yiannopoulos’s insistence that he was just ... more >
Publishing NewsAfrican American history / American history / Beverly Jenkins / camels / historical romance / narrative / sex ed / storytelling4 Comments
Life’s Stories – A really, really fascinating article about the way people use narrative techniques to tell their life stories. I could have pulled at least a dozen paragraphs out to quote, there are so many layers to this phenomenon, not only in regard to how diverse and often complex ... more >